Goa, July 26 -- For the past three decades, Claude and Norma Alvares have fought battles in the courts across the country. The battles have not been their personal one, but they have been ours, and while we have lingered in the background - some of us interestedly and others desultorily following the progress of those court cases that lasted from months to year - they have been the frontline warriors who have stood in the courts and flashing the law books to the judges proved where the government had erred and got decisions of the State reversed, saving for us and for generations to come the forests, the beaches and the rivers of Goa. In these environmental battles Goa Foundation and the Alvares couple have crossed the paths of many who h...